Born at Leipzig, Germany, he was taught music by his father. He studied at the St. Thomas School, and some believe he studied law at the University there, but there is no record of that. In 1750 Count Wilhelm of Schaumburg-Lippe appointed Johann Christoph harpsichordist at Bückeburg, and in 1759 becoming Konzertmeister. While there, Bach collaborated with Herder.
Bach wrote keyboard sonatas, Symphonies, oratorios, liturgical choir pieces and motets, operas and songs. Because of Count Wilhelm's predilection for Italian music, Bach had to adapt his style accordingly, but he retained stylistic traits of the music of his father and of his brother, C. P. E..
The 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica says of him "He was an industrious composer, ... whose work reflects no discredit on the family name." Professor Peter Schickele, in comparing his alter ego, the fictitious composer P. D. Q. Bach, to Johann Sebastian's other sons, said that P. D. Q.'s music has "the obscurity of Johann Christoph Friedrich."
JohannChristophFriedrichBach (June 21, 1732 – January 26, 1795), the ninth son of Johann Sebastian Bach, sometimes referred to as the "BückeburgBach".
In 1750, Count Wilhelm of Schaumburg-Lippe appointed JohannChristoph harpsichordist at Bückeburg, and in 1759, he became Konzertmeister.
He educated his nephew Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach in music as his own father had, and Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst went on to become music director to Frederick William II of Prussia.
Johann Sebastian Bach (March 21, 1685 – July 28, 1750) was a German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra and keyboard drew together almost all of the strands of the baroque style and brought it to its ultimate maturity.
Bach was best known during his lifetime as an organist, organ consultant, and composer of organ works both in the traditional German free genres such as preludes, fantasias, and toccatas, and stricter forms such as chorale preludes and fugues.
Bach's other large work, the Mass in B minor, was assembled by Bach near the end of his life, mostly from pieces composed earlier (such as Cantata 191 and Cantata 12).
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